30 November, 2007

Fags and Flames

This week were were mostly throwing cigarettes past the camera and blowing up retired company directors; in this case Niel Simpson (friend of our film partner and financier, Ken Fraser). Normally chavvy scum like us rarely get to meet anyone wealthy or interesting, but making movies changes things, and sometimes we meet the most fascinating of people.

Most people wouldn't allow you to set off explosions in their back yard, but Neil actually lent me a car battery to set the charges off. Also very willing to spray petrol about for flame shots. Great chap.

A series of pick ups shots and 2 explosions took 2 weekends to film, due to bad weather and availability of light. Trying to film fire in a gale ain't easy, neither is flicking cigarette butts to a specific location. But we eventually got the shots and hopefully they all turned out ok.

Highlight for us (me) was setting 2 small charges off (anti terrorism act means I can't say how or what was involved - but I may mention balloons). These were done at the location and hopefully saved us doing too much post production and fakery with the shot. Here are some shots, taken by the invaluable Mark Wyness, of explodey things and us freezing our arses off. Which explains our outfits.

Wow, awesome photos! Aw...I want to go to Scotland and blow stuff up! :-(. Hey, thanks for checking out the ole' website...glad you like the shop sections. It's just an experiment right now, but hopefully it'll turn out lucrative. We'll see :-)

Hey! If you have any questions about simpleviewer, feel free to ask...it took me a good long while to figure out how to imbed it in an existing HTML page. The "FAQ" section of the simpleviewer website is extremely helpful, but can be a mystery if you don't do coding.